So after a 3-week stay in Houston, Yao Ming went back to Shanghai yesterday (May 26) with his family (mother, his wife Ye Li, and his 1-year-old daughter, Amy Yao Qinlei).

Their flight MU586 (transiting Los Angeles) arrived Pudong, Shanghai at about 17:00 pm in the afternoon.

Because it is the first time that Amy Yao gets back home since her birth, hundreds of press/media reporters gathered before the entrance of the VIP channel of Shanghai Pudong International Airport and Yao Ming's home in Shanghai yesterday, trying to get a glimpse of Yao Ming and his family, particularly to get a photo shot of the small Amy Yao.

But they were all disappointed and had to leave empty-handed, as under special arrangement (and police escort), Yao's family left directly from the apron without taking the VIP channel and they went back to not their previous home in Xuhui District but to another place.

And after some futile searching over Internet, all I got was the following photo of Yao Ming taken upon arrival together with a Chinese Immigration/Customs official inside the airport.

But according to some sources from immigration officials:

Amy Yao uses a US passport;

She is slightly taller than most normal 1-year-old, probably due to the genes of her parents.

Given the looming NBA lockout for the new season, and the fact that he will be a free agent this summer with his future in NBA still pending, it seems that it's going to be a long stay for Yao Ming this time in China !!!

According to what Erik Zhang Mingji disclosed to the media, Yao Ming is going to stay in China for at least the whole of this summer.

Some of the things that are on his current schedule will be as follows:

Organize a birthday party in Shanghai for Amy Yao Qinlei who just had her birthday celebrated May 21 in Houston.

Continue to work out details re the 3rd Yao Ming Foundation Charity Game/Gala which will be held in Shanghai in August.

The inauguration ceremony in Ganxu in June for another Yao Foundation Project Hope primary school.

Towards end June, Yao Ming will travel to Athens Greece together with the Chinese Special Olympics delegation; he is invited in his capacity as the Global Ambassador of Special Olympics to attend the opening ceremony of the 2011 Special Olympics in Athens (June 25 ~ July 4).

Basketball and other commercial related activities in July/August

Of course, his continuous rehabilitation from his foot injury

As his current schedule stands, it looks like it is unlikely for him to represent China to compete in the 2011 FIBA Asian Championship in Wuhan this September for the sole ticket to 2012 London Olympics.

He flew to Jiuquan City of Gansu yesterday morning from Shanghai transiting Xian.

After almost 10-hour travel, he arrived at Jiuquan Jiayuguan Airport around 16:00 pm in the afternoon.

He then went straight to the Jiuquan Municipal Sports Academy at 17:00 pm almost without any rest.

Waiting there in the sports academy were 20 some students with intellectual disabilities from the Yao Foundation Project Hope Special Training School that Yao Ming Foundation donated/built in Gansu and also 20 some students from the Jiuquan Municipal Sports Academy.

Yao Ming, in his capacity of the Global Ambassador for Special Olympics, then gave a session of Unified Sports in the form of a basketball clinic, teaching the intellectual handicapped students some basketball fundamentals, pairing them up with normal students.

One of the students of Yao Foundation Project Hope Special Training School, Chen Xiaorong will be representing China in the forthcoming 13th Special Olympics to be held in Athens end June. Yao Ming specifically picked her out, gifted her a pair of running shoes and encouraged Chen to believe in herself and give her best performance in Athens.

Last edited by pryuen on Fri Jun 10, 2011 4:37 pm, edited 1 time in total.

[size=117]Yao Ming appeared today (June 10) to preside in the inauguration ceremony of yet another Project Hope primary school Yao Foundation donated and built; this time, it is the Jiuquan Nash~Yao Foundation Special Education School situated in the Suzhou district of Jiuquan City of Gansu.

[color=darkred]This is the very first of such special education school in the city of Jiuquan for deaf and dumb and intellectual disabled children. Its building cost was RMB 7 million, co-funded by [b]Shanghai Special Care Foundation, Yao Ming Foundation, Youth Development Foundation of Gansu Province, and People